18 Brutal Business Failures From Billionaire Entrepreneurs

In fact, many of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs have faced failure of a scale and magnitude that most of us can never imagine.

Whether its being fired from the very company he founded (Steve Jobs, Apple), or running through 5,000 prototypes before finding success (Sir James Dyson, Dyson Vacuum Cleaners), the 18 intrepid entrepreneurs featured below teach us that failure is not something to be featured, and is often a prerequisite to wild success!